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I am not immune to the year in review meme
by JS on December 31, 2009
books Of the thirty-odd books I read in 2009, well over half were short story collections. So it isn’t surprising most of my favorite books turned out to be story collections: Demons in the Spring and Bluebirds Used to Croon (…)
These fine websites update more often than I do
by JS on December 12, 2009
Some blogs I’ve subscribed to recently: Erin Fitzgerald’s Rarely Likable “a litblog for dilettantes” has linkbucket posts that are actually interesting and not just bloggy filler. At I Have Become Accustomed To Rejection, writer Roxane Gay blogs about her work (…)
communing with books
by JS on November 30, 2009
“Your brain instinctively and naturally attempts to build something given whatever world it’s currently in. In a bookstore, with effort, I can shed the somethings of my everyday and find the nothing that I don’t know I’m looking for. (And (…)
what the hell, calendar?
by JS on November 6, 2009
“I am at a loss. I don’t know where this week has gone. But it’s gone. I think we met, but very, very briefly. I think I liked it but am fairly certain the feeling was not mutual.”
the last lines are what got me
by JS on October 18, 2009
Non-poetry specific blogs might seem an odd way to discover new-to-me poems, but I love it when that happens. I read Katha Pollit‘s “What I Understood” over on Follow Me Here today: When I was a child I understood everything (…)